CCP Hires Western Military Aviators to Prepare for War With Taiwan: Taiwanese Military Expert

Pilots with real combat experience are rare in China, said another military expert.

A Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy J-11 fighter pilot performs an unsafe maneuver during an intercept of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft, which was lawfully conducting routine operations over the South China Sea in international airspace, on Dec. 21, 2022, in a still from video. Courtesy of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command/Screenshot via The Epoch Times

The Five Eyes (FVEY) alliance announced steps earlier in June to prevent Western military aviators from training Beijing’s military and naval aviators, capabilities that military experts say are key for Beijing to be able to attack Taiwan.

On June 5, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), representing the FVEY (the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), issued a joint bulletin warning of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) efforts to recruit current and retired Western service members to train its military.